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Please see the most recent updates in the "Where did the .com name go?" thread. Posts number 16 and 17.
New Boeing B-797 Giant Flying Wing is Released!
- Thread starter Lionheart
- Start date
CG_1976
Ret. US Coastie/RCAF
Very nice and looking good, by chance could I req a Green Bat on her please.
Ferry_vO
Retired SOH Administrator
Don't worry Bill, I'm sure someone will do a KLM version sooner or later!
You know I was only joking and thinking out loud, right?
Don't let that stop you though! :d
A more serious request/question: Will there perhaps be an FsX native model in the future..?
Don't worry Bill, I'm sure someone will do a KLM version sooner or later!
You know I was only joking and thinking out loud, right?
Don't let that stop you though! :d
A more serious request/question: Will there perhaps be an FsX native model in the future..?
Hey Ferry,
It would be a ways out as I have to finish the Dynamic and Avellina and 'maybe' the Fanliner, as well as the RG version Racer of the Skylark.
Did I mention I am hiring?
Very nice!! I didnt know it would look 'that' cool in AF gray. I need to make a refueler version with hoses quick...
Ferry,
That is an interesting question. I am so lured into possibly making FS9 models only again. Its such a yearning. Its so difficult making models for FSX. In FS9, I can crank them out very fast. Its just on my thoughts is all, so no worries. Not yet, anyways...
Bill
DaveWG
Charter Member
Reflective panel - FIXED
Hey Bill, hope you don't mind, but I've edited the panel.cfg to eleminate the "reflective panels when lights on" issue.
New panel.cfg can be downloaded here: http://daveg.cbfsim.org/files/panel.zip
Hey Bill, hope you don't mind, but I've edited the panel.cfg to eleminate the "reflective panels when lights on" issue.
New panel.cfg can be downloaded here: http://daveg.cbfsim.org/files/panel.zip
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Snave
Guest
Mebbe. The BWB (Blended Wing Body) has a number of advantages in internal volume, drag, high altitude performance and `masking` of engine noise perceived from the ground. Remember the original reason for a fuselage was simply to keep the tail a distance from the wing! Close-coupled flying wing always had pitch problems until the advent of FBW, and now fly-by-wire is the de facto standard for current and next-gen airliners.
On that basis I would say that it is a commercial possibility.
But there remain issues with having passengers so far off the centreline - the accelerations are amplified not just in the vertical plane as Bill had alluded to in the tricky `ruddering` flight model, reducing banking for a given turn rate, but also in the horizontal plane as the aircraft changes heading - the `outside` passengers on the turn will detect a noticeable increase in acceleration compared to the `inside` as the craft changes direction - and if you combine that with even a limited angle of bank then the combined movement of fore/aft and up/down can lead to unpleasant results - as any seafarer will tell you!
Not only that, not every passenger wants a window seat facing forward - that runway centreline could look an awfully long way off on approach with pax overhanging the grass, leading to panic, trouser-spoiling and yet more
jmig
SOH-CM-2025
Mebbe. ...On that basis I would say that it is a commercial possibility.
But there remain issues with having passengers so far off the centreline - the accelerations are amplified not just in the vertical plane as Bill had alluded to in the tricky `ruddering` flight model, reducing banking for a given turn rate, but also in the horizontal plane as the aircraft changes heading - the `outside` passengers on the turn will detect a noticeable increase in acceleration compared to the `inside` as the craft changes direction - and if you combine that with even a limited angle of bank then the combined movement of fore/aft and up/down can lead to unpleasant results - as any seafarer will tell you!
Not only that, not every passenger wants a window seat facing forward - that runway centreline could look an awfully long way off on approach with pax overhanging the grass, leading to panic, trouser-spoiling and yet more
Something tells me that I know where the cheap seats will located.
Bjoern
worst developer ever
Something tells me that I know where the cheap seats will located.
The sections will be titled "Mom in-laws only". :d
I had originally mapped those areas with hovering polygons, total of 4, front, top, center, and sides, but later narrowed it down to front and center, with center being the two clear zones for gauges placement. I didnt think we needed any more then that. The rest became non-functioning bits and pieces knobs.
Im sure glad you found that mysterious fix DaveWG. Good going man!
Bill
Stickshaker
SOH-CM-2023
Fantastic plane Lionheart! Thanks so much for this gift.
